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A Record of Phylactolaemata from Late Cenozoic Continental Deposits of Northern Eurasia and North America
AbstractFossil statoblasts of Phylactolaemata were found in several Late Cenozoic sections of Eurasia and North America. Phylactolaemata has great...
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First Record of Fungus of the Family Mycocaliciaceae in Rovno Amber (Ukraine)
AbstractChaenothecopsis polissica V.P. Heluta et Sukhomlyn, sp. nov. (Mycocaliciales, Ascomycota) from late Eocene Rovno amber (Ukraine) is...
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First Record of Cordiform Bivalves Cardilia martini Deshayes, 1844 (Mollusca, Cardilidae) from India
Based on the materials deposited in the National Zoological Collection of the Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, the present paper is diagnosed and...
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Applications of mercury stable isotopes for tracing volcanism in the geologic record
Mercury (Hg) enrichments in ancient sediments have been used as a proxy of volcanism, especially large igneous province (LIP) eruptions. However,...
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Palynological dating and incidence of the fossil Botryococcus in variable pH from the Mesozoic sediments of the Godavari Valley Coalfield, South India: insights in palaeoecology and palaeoenvironment
The influence of marine components in the study area is attributed to seafloor spreading and opening in the Indian Ocean during the Aptian, coupled...
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Extant and Fossil Sponges Associated with Hydrothermal Vent and Cold Seep Communities
Sponges are well known from recent vents and seeps, but most of them are background organisms that may occur elsewhere. Only a few are proven to be...
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Reconstruction of the environmental conditions for the past 2,000 years in the Perico River basin (NW Argentina) based on fossil pollen records
In this paper we aim to reconstruct seasonal humid conditions of the past 2,000 years based on fossil pollen records from high altitude sites...
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Geoconservation and Geotourism Potential of Vulnerable Rudist Fossil Geosites from SE Anatolia (Turkey)
This study aims to reveal existing geosites in vulnerable rudist fossil areas in SE Turkey through an assessment of geoconservation, geotourism, and...
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Post-Conquest vegetation and fire dynamics at Laguna Carse, Costa Rica: A pollen and microscopic charcoal record
The study of lake sediment-derived proxy records from southern Costa Rica has shown that changes in vegetation and fire activity over the late...
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Caught in travertine: computed tomography reveals the youngest record of Amphicyon giganteus from the travertine deposits of Karacalar (late middle Miocene, central Anatolia, Turkey)
A computed tomography scan of a travertine slab from the Karacalar Silver Travertine Quarry (Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey) revealed the presence...
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New insights into the early morphological evolution of sea turtles by re-investigation of Nichollsemys baieri, a three-dimensionally preserved fossil stem chelonioid from the Campanian of Alberta, Canada
The early evolution of Pan-Chelonioidea (sea turtles) is poorly understood. This is in part due to the rarity of undeformed skulls of definitive...
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A fossil aphidlion preserved together with its prey in 40 million-year-old Baltic amber
Lacewings (Neuroptera) have predatory larvae with highly specialised mouthparts. Larvae of many groups within Neuroptera are well represented as...
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Were prehistoric cereal fields in western Norway manured? Evidence from stable isotope values (δ15N) of charred modern and fossil cereals
Charred cereal grains from archaeological contexts in western Norway were selected for stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis. Single grain...
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Closterium mosbruggeri sp. nov.: a new fossil species from the middle Miocene of Northwest Bulgaria
A fossil vegetative cell of desmidian algae is described as a new species— Closterium mosbruggeri sp. nov. It occurs in middle Miocene (late...
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Old and new fossil birds from the Spanish Miocene
Now a long time ago, avian remains from the Vallès-Penedès Basin and from other Miocene localities inaugurated the study of the Neogene birds from...
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Attached and free-living crustose coralline algae and their functional traits in the geological record and today
Crustose coralline algae (CCA) are important ecosystem engineers and carbonate producers today and in the geological past. While there is an...
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First Fossil Legume Flower of Papilionoid Affinity from India
Fabaceae, presently a significant dominant taxon of the tropical vegetation of India, has been recognized as the most widespread and common component...
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The Miocene record of the Betic Cordillera uplift in Los Guájares valley (Granada province, S Spain)
The Los Guájares valley is located about 35 km south of Granada in the Internal Zones of the Betic Cordillera. The Miocene deposits in this area...
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From fossil trader to paleontologist: on Swiss-born naturalist Santiago Roth and his scientific contributions
Roth’s explorations, the resulting collections many now allocated in La Plata, Zurich, Geneva and Copenhagen, and his significant contributions in...
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First asserted record of the house mouse in Morocco: application of a multidisciplinary approach to the site of Rirha (5th − 1st c. BC)
The biogeographic and demographic history of the house mouse, Mus musculus domesticus , has been closely linked to human history since pre-Neolithic...
